Ünite Sınavı Soruları

What is the main idea of the LIGA (or AGIL) scheme of Talcott Parson’s systemic approach?

What is the aim of the “political development” orientation in the context of the behaviouralist revolution and the consequent affirmation of the functionalist perspective and the systemic paradigm?

Which of the following assumes the actor and his goals are independent of social forces?

Which of the following is NOT one of the five fundamental types of crisis identified by the Committee on Comparative Politics?

According to the _________, the actor and his goals are independent variables from which social structures and institutions are obtained.

Which of the following correctly fills the blank above?

Which of the following are the postulates of Niklas Luhmann’s systemic approach?

1. Both individual and society can be considered “systems”, that is, entities oriented to maintain over time the various components that compose them.
2. Every system refers to real processes in which actions maintain a regular course even within a complex and in some respects fluctuating environment.
3. The concept of system does not refer to the network of relationships that a given set entertains with its own reference environment, but rather all the relations of the parts with the whole.

Which of the following are the strands of New Institutionalism?

1. Sociological Institutionalism
2. Hierarchical Institutionalism
3. Historical Institutionalism
4. Rational Choice Institutionalism
5. Discursive Institutionalism

Which of the following are true for functionalism and systems theory?

1. They adopt a holistic perspective; everything is considered as more relevant than its parts.
2. The emphasis is on the actions’ consequences rather than the causes (motivations, desires, socialisation).
3. The objective dimension linked to the functional organisation of the system predominates over the subjective dimension represented by the perceptions and behaviour of individual actors.

Which of the following theorists is linked to structural functionalism in political science?

Which of the following theorist aims to identify some rules that can describe and predict the behaviour of citizens and government elites in a democratic context?

Which of the following elements is not one of the the presuppositions
and objectives of the behaviourist movement identified by David Easton?

Which of the following refers to the infancy of nations, when central governments begin to take control of the population by laying the foundations for the construction of a national market?

Which of the following cultural movements marks a watershed between
the traditional way of approaching political analysis, based on the concepts of state and power, often within a normative historical perspective?

Who defines a political system, identifies its boundaries and the structures that compose it and what its operating logic is?

What is the dichotomy shared by different orientations on studies of modernisation?

All are true of the economic analysis of politics regardless of different orientations EXCEPT

1. They tend to conceptualise the relationship between institutions and individual behaviour in broad terms.
2. They tend to  emphasise the asymmetries of power connected to operation and development of institutions.
3. They tend to have an idea of political development that emphasises path dependence and unintended consequences
4. They are concerned with integrating institutional analysis with the contribution that other kinds of factors, such as ideas, can make to political outcomes.

Which of the above could be identified as features common to all historical institutionalist authors?

Which of the following is NOT one of the presuppositions of the behaviourist movement based on its epistemological propositions?

Who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published in 1962, shows that, because of the implicit characteristics of their objects, the social sciences struggle to identify with the single paradigm of a shared global vision of the scientific community’s disciplinary matrix?